Innovation of organization and operation of the People's Courts at the request of judicial reforms

28/05/2014
On 27 May 2014, the Central Commission of Internal Affairs hosted the workshop on the innovation of organization and operation of the People's Courts at the request of judicial reforms.

The workshop was co-chaired by Mr. Nguyen Doan Khanh, member of the Party’s Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Commission of Internal Affairs, Mr. Tran Van Do, Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court, Chief Judge of the Central Military Court and Mr. Scott Ciment, Policy Advisor of the UNDP Vietnam. The participants are professionals, managers and scientists obtaining practical experiences related to the field of justice of ministries and agencies including the Steering Committee for Judicial Reforms, the Supreme People's Court, Hanoi National University, Ministry of Justice, Vietnam Bar Federation, Vietnam Lawyers Association, the Legal Committee of the National Assembly, Judicial Academy, Ministry of Public Security and some localities.

In the workshop, the participants delivered several scientific reports with the focus of the innovation of organization and operation of the People's Courts at the request of judicial reforms. Comments in the workshop were basically consistent with the reports and speeches of the participants. However, there were also some suggestions to amend and supplement a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the People’s Courts related to judges such as institutional appointment and tenure of judges.

Concluding the workshop, Mr. Nguyen Doan Khanh highly appreciated all reports, speeches and comments of the participants. He addressed that the positive results of the workshop shall serve the mission of innovating organization and operation of the People's Courts contributing to judicial reforms in general.